NPR now has a on-air talent search, which at first blush, appears to be in the form of a talent show. The Web page even looks like the logo for "The Next Food Network Star" or whatever that show is called. Here's the blurb from their Web page:
Do you have what it takes to be public radio's next great host? Do you have that most elusive of qualities - hostiness? Now is your chance. We're casting a wide net to find new talent for public radio, and giving away over $70,000 along the way.
TF?
And earlier this month (like way earlier this month), the Willamette Week reported that Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Tom Hallman was suspended and demoted at The Oregonian for accepting free parking in downtown Portland from a controversial figure. Taking freebies from controversial people (some of you outside of the Northwest might not understand how valuable parking in Portland is) is a no no, as every reporter learns. Hallman had already lost his lustre in my eyes after an iffy story about a guy obsessed with Fermat's Last Theorem, which had elements that were contrived by the paper. (The contrivances were revealed in the tagline, and also later explained along with factual inaccuracies in a story later published in the Oregonian.)
Hallman's editor now has been left off the list of editors at the paper and one of their top editors sent out a long boring memo about the paper's new management structure and a big push for online, etc., etc. A friend of mine surmised that the restructuring of the management and the earlier incidents could have been related by reading between the lines of that long boring memo, which I'm not going to link to, because it is incredibly long and boring.
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